Sentence examples for rapprochement across from inspiring English sources

Mr Ma cannot afford to be complacent and neither can China, which fears a strengthened DPP could put the brakes on rapprochement across the Taiwan Strait.

If the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 were held against a background of rapprochement across the strait, that would greatly assist China's efforts to project itself as a responsible world power.

After weeks of rapprochement across the 38th parallel, the old, ingrained politics of the Korean Peninsula have fallen back into place.

Any rapprochement between Pyongyang and Seoul during the remainder of President Park's term in office is likely to be another diplomatic casualty of the test, which has made a mockery of Kim Jong Un's call for reconciliation across the divided peninsula, voiced in his New Year's speech barely a week ago.

From this position of weakness, Iran's leaders, no doubt terrified that the Americans would pour across its borders, sought real diplomatic rapprochement with Washington for the first time since 1979.

The Guards could also use their role as shock troops of Iran's interventions across the Middle East to try to derail future rapprochement with the West, said Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born lecturer at Israel's Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya.

David Cameron said yesterday he would have supported improved relations with Iran in any case, but the mounting threat from Isis across the border in Iraq has added urgency to a rapprochement – and explains the decision to reopen Britain's embassy in Tehran.

Something of a maverick, and certainly a polymath, his awareness of debates across a range of disciplines led him to seek a rapprochement between the social sciences, the humanities, and the biological sciences.

This rapprochement is terribly significant.

A rapprochement never happened, however.

But there are signs of a rapprochement.